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Reagent Test Results

What are reagents?
Reagents are chemicals used to test drugs before they are consumed. A reagent usually can’t prove a drug is the correct drug, and it can never prove how pure it is. But it can prove that something you have is NOT the drug you think it is, and give you a fairly good idea of what it could be.
It is very important for people using chemicals and MDMA tabs to test them before they use the drugs. I know one dude who was supposed to get methylone from a vendor and he got DOI. He would have easily died if he could not tell the difference. A few vendors have also sent bunk and who knows what the hell that is. Another mix up I know of was PCP and Novocaine. Some MDMA tabs (none online I have heard of) contain PMA instead of MDMA, and PMA is really dangerous shit.
You can buy reagents to test your drugs with at www.dancesafe.org or www.eztest.com

If you do a lot of testing, you can make your own reagents easily and it’s cheaper than buying them pre-made. At the bottom, there are instructions how to prepare these reagents yourself.

COLOR TEST RESULTS

PHENETHYLAMINES, AMPHETAMINES, CATHINONES & AMINOINDANES

Key points (by TheAzo):
•These reagents are suitable for identifying 4-halo 2C’s; differentiation between them is possible but difficult.
•These reagents are suitable for identifying 4-alkyl 2C’s; differentiation between them is not realistically possible.
•These reagents are excellent for identifying 4-thioalkyl 2C’s. As only 1 thioalkyl 2C was available, nothing can be said for differentiation between 4-thioalkyl 2C’s.
•I am unable to replicate results indicating that 2C-E produces a green or yellow color, yet these chemicals are known good, and produce effects that are in every way consistent with expectations, including the characteristic durations and dosages for 2C-D/E/P.
•These reagents are not sufficient for differentiation between cathinones of similar structure.
•These reagents are not sufficient to confidently confirm presence of mephedrone.
•These reagents are not sufficient to confidently rule out the presence of most cathinones in combination with other agents that produce strong colors.
•These reagents are not sufficient to confirm or rule out presence of desoxypipiradrol in combination with other agents, especially as the active dose is very low. Luckily I am not aware of this horrible drug showing up as an adulterant.
•MDAI on the market (2010) is so filthy that the impurities confound identification with the marquis reagent.
•2-AI can be confidently detected using the mandellin reagent.

2C-B
Marquis: yellow, changing to green, and then fading over time
Mecke: yellow/brown
Mandellin: yellow fading to clear
Simons: no reaction
Chens: no reaction
Gallic Acid: no reaction

Key Points (by TheAzo):
•These reagents are sufficient for detecting tryptamines.
•These reagents are sufficient for narrowing the range of possible tryptamines, but not for positive identification.
•Mecke turns reddish brown in the presence of 5-MeO-T’s, and brown in the presence of 4-HO/4-AcO-T’s.

Key points (by TheAzo):
•These reagents are sufficient to detect synthetic cannabinoids in common circulation
•These reagents are sufficient to distinguish between classes of synthetic cannabinoids, but not between closely related compounds.
•It is as yet unverified whether these are suitable for analysis of smoke blends, or determination of adulterants in cannabis.
•None produced fizzing. I am now convinced that fizzing is produced by simple reaction of H2SO4 in reagent with salts of a volatile acid.

Here are instructions on how to make reagents and some references. Always wear gloves and safety goggles/glasses.

Reagent Name: Marquis Test PREPARATION Reagent 1: Add 8-10 drops (approx. 0.25 ml) of 37% formaldehyde solution to 10 ml of glacial acetic acid. Reagent 2: Concentrated sulphuric acid.TESTING PROCEDURE
- Place a small amount (1-2 mg of powder, or 1-2 drops of a liquid) of the suspected material in a depression on a spot plate (a ceramic or glass plate will do; do not use metal, stone or paper).
- Add one drop of Reagent 1, then one drop of Reagent 2, and stir.
- Observe the color of the mixture.

Reagent Name: Mecke Test PREPARATIONReagent: Dissolve 1 g selenious acid in 100 mL concentrated sulfuric acid.TESTING PROCEDURE
- Place a small amount (1-2 mg of powder, or 1-2 drops of a liquid) of the suspected material in a small test tube.
- Add one drop of Mecke Reagent.
- Observe the color of the mixture.

Reagent Name: Simon’s Test PREPARATIONReagent 1: Dissolve 2 g of sodium carbonate in 100 mL of distilled or purified water, making
(=2% aqueous sodium carbonate solution).Reagent 2: Dissolve 0.9 g of sodium nitroprusside in 90 ml of water (=1% aqueous sodium nitroprusside solution).Reagent 3: Mix 10 mL of acetaldehyde solution and 10 ml of ethanol (=50% (v/v) ethanolic acetaldehyde solution).TESTING PROCEDURE
- Place a small amount (1-2 mg of powder, or 1-2 drops of a liquid) of the suspected material in a depression on a spot plate.
- Add one drop of Reagent 1 and stir.
- Add one drop of Reagent 2, and then one drop of Reagent 3.
- Observe the color of the mixture.

Reagent Name: Gallic Acid Test PREPARATIONReagent: Dissolve 0.1 g of gallic acid in 20 ml of concentrated sulphuric acid (=0.5% (w/v) solution)PROCEDURE
- Place a small amount (1-2 mg of powder, or 1-2 drops of a liquid) of the suspected material in a small test tube.
- Add one drop of Gallic Acid Reagent.
- Observe the color of the mixture.

Reagent Name: Erlich’s Test (aka p-DMAB Test) REAGENT PREPARATIONReagent: Dissolve 0.5 g p-dimethylaminobenzaledehyde (p-DMAB) in 50 ml ethanol and 50 ml concentrated hydrochloric acid.PROCEDURE
- Place a small amount (1-2 mg of powder, or 1-2 drops of a liquid) of the suspected material in a small test tube.
- Add one drop of Erlich’s Reagent.
- Observe the color of the mixture.

Reagent Name: Mandelin Test PREPARATIONReagent: Suspend 1 g of finely powdered ammonium vanadate in 100 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid (relative density 1.86).TESTING PROCEDURE
- Place a small amount (1-2 mg of powder, or 1-2 drops of a liquid) of the suspected material in a small test tube.
- Add one drop of Mandelin Reagent.
- Observe the color of the mixture.

Reagent Name: Sodium Nitroprusside Test PREPARATIONReagent 1: Mix 25 ml of a 1% sodium nitroprusside solution with 1 ml acetaldehyde.Reagent 2: 2% sodium carbonate solution.TESTING PROCEDURE
- Place a small amount (1-2 mg of powder, or 1-2 drops of a liquid) of the suspected material in a depression on a spot plate.
- Add one drop of Reagent 1 and stir.
- Add one drop of Reagent 2.
- The color is formed immediately after Reagent 2 is added.

So I've recently gotten really into the hobby of testing pills. I have been eating high quality ecstasy for 10 years and I had no idea what pipes were until this year when I unknowingly got and ate a pipes pill on my birthday. I was very confused because I had never considered getting a bad pill as it had not happened to me.

Since then, I've done a ton of reading and I test everything I get and like everything else, you get very good at identifying bad results with practice. I wanted to share a little of what I have learned with new testers because it was a little confusing at first and see a lot of comments on Pill Reports regarding weak or watery results, and there is a growing trend of putting trace amounts of MDMA in pills with the intention to trip the tester and trick the user.

Basically if you test good molly the results should look something like this:

This is just a picture of the MECKE results but results with the MARQUIS should be just as concentrated. You are looking for a very dark puddle and the color change should be pretty much instant.
This is what you want to avoid:

This seems to confuse some new testers because they are the right color changes, they are just a little watery. Maybe they're just a low dose you say to yourself. This is where it's important to know what is making the results watery and how little MDMA is needed to trick you.

Check out the results from these nasty pills:

ecstasydata.org says these are a caffeine/pipes combo pill. Gross. Notice there is no real reaction here? This is what makes for the swirly or watery results.

Now lets look at how little MDMA is takes to trip a tester. This picture is from some purple starfish that were tested:

Notice the results are the right color, but watery and weak. So how much MDMA do these have in them? ecstasydata.org says:

* TFMPP: 3
* BZP: 1
* MDMA: 0.1

WOW.

.1 MDMA. Let's do some crappy math. This pill weighed 400 milligrams. If there were no binders at all in this pill (which is not possible) it would have about:

Slightly less than 300 mg of TFMPP
Slightly less than 100 mg of BZP
Less than 10 mg of MDMA.

Add the binder in and you get even less. So that means that less than 10 mg of MDMA will produce a watery result of the right colors on a 400 mg pill. INSANE! Imagine what 40 mg could do? Remember, you are looking for a dark concentrated puddle of reaction from the reagent. Watery results mean other shit mixed in and not enough MDMA to react properly. Hope this helps some new testers out there! Also, I've only been testing pills since the summer, if anyone has anything to add feel free!

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